SQL Server Backup - Scripts Advantages over Maintenance Plans

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  • We can quickly generate all of the backup tasks on an instance by running a single script
  • Issues editing or viewing maintenance plans on differing versions of sql server management studio
  • Extra layer of complexity with maintenance plans
  • Much easier to standardize, roll out and make changes in a large environment like ourselves - maintenance plans inherently slow to create and not easy to move across instances.
  • Ola Hallengren scripts are tried and tested and used by multiple large organisations. Well maintained and trusted in the industry.
  • Standardises our express backups to match our full sql server backups

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